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"Louder, Gabriel, Louder"

One of the best replies eser made is
said to be that Of the brilliant but erratic
Tom Marshall, of Kentucky, in answer
to one who interrupted him while he
was speaking to vast audience in Buf.
falo, N. Y. When Marshall was elo.
quently picturing the, glorious liberty,
and each sentence fell from his lips as
chaste and beautiful as the marble block
comes from the sculptor's hand, some
political opponent in the audience cried
out: "Louder, louder!" Marshall did
not at first tumble to the trick, but on
being interrupted again by the same cry,
he paused in his magnificent flight of
eloquence and said:
"Mr. President: On the last and fual
day of this our mortal earth, when the
angel Gabriel shall take his departure
from the blue domes of heaven, and
placing one foot upon the rolling sea
and the other upon the land, shall lift to
his lips the golden trumpet aud az
nounce in his clarion notes that time
shall be no more; when, amid the gush
ing melodies of angelic choirs, he shall
announce to the pale form of the resur'
rected dead that the dsy of Immortality
is at hand, and the souls of men shall
rise from the tomb, I have no doubt, sir
but that some d-n fool from Buffalo viii
start up and cry OUT Louder, Gabriel
louder"
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Divorce Easy In Atlanta.

The granting of twenty divorces in
one day by Fulton Superior Court has
attracted attention all over the country.
The parties to nineteen of the twenty
suits we're white. For several years past
the proportion of negroes in such cases
has been much larger 10 this community.
Only three husbands were among the
twenty plaintiffs. OF the seventeen
wives who sought a separation eight
charge drunkenness, though only three
alleged habitual drunkenness, which the
law of Georgia requires to be proved to
gain divorce. The charge of cruelty is
brought in almost every petition. Fail.
ure to provide support is alleged in FIVE
cases. Two discontented wives use the
mild form of "unkindness" as the reason
Why they should be separated from un.
cougenial lords. One juror voted to
divorce couple after confessing that he
had not heard word of the evidence.
Another juror seemed to forget the fact
taat the law clearly prescribes the causes
which shall be sufficient to procure di-
vorce, and announced that he was in
favor of granting one every time 1t was
asked. Nearly all these divorces were
granted on discretionary grounds" and
in most Of such cases the jury was salts.
fed with the unsupported testimony Of
the aintiff.-Atlanta Constitution.
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Fourth of July Incidents.

Fifteen deaths by accident or murder
are reported for the fourth of July, and
the.uumber of seriously hurt runs into
the hundreds. A gas pipe loaded by
boys with powder exploded at Columbus,
o., and killed man who was passing in
a Knights of Labor parade; at Chicago
three boys and four men we're killed by
toy pistols and small cannon Ut Water
town, N. Y, the supply of fireworks
went off unexpectedly and hurt four
men at susquehana, Pa, roof on which
p,ople were packed to see ball game
fell in, hurting many; at ST. Asaph's
station, Va, two men were killed in a
drunken riot; near Louisville, KY,
lightning struck tree near which pick
nickers were sheltered, killing two boys
at Hazleton, Pa, man was shot and
killed by drunken comrade; at atChicago
German who stabbed and killed his
friend in sudden rage realized what LIE
had done and killed himself; at Wheeler
Mich, a cannon burst, killing a man
and at Ithaca fireworks fatally hurt
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Big Salaries. '.lll,

There are q, score of men in New York
who are paid as much for their services
each year as the President of the United
States. Forty thousand dollars year is
very tidy salary. There are hundreds
of men who get s25, ,OoO year salary,
and the number who get from $4,000 to
$4,000 are legion. Very ordinary men
get from s5,0oot to $4,000 year, or-as
much as Cabinet officer. DR.. Norvin
Green, president of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, is paid $4,000. So
is Chauncey M. Depew, president Of the
New York Central railroad. Richard
M. McCurdy, president of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company, gets a like
amount. John Hoey, president Of Adams
Express Company, fares equally as we'll.
President Henry B. Hyde, of the Equita.
BILE Life Insurance Company, is also in
the list. George G. Williams, president
Of the Chemical National Bank, the rich.
est banking institution in America, with
nearly SIS, 100000 Of surplus, $2O,OOO,OOO
average deposits, is paid a salary of $685.
900 yearly. President Potts, of the Park
Bank, and President Tappan, of the
Gallatin National Bank, receive like
sum each twelve months.
The estpaid minister in New York is
DR.. John Hall, a brainy man from the
north of Ireland, who breaches to $780,
100000 every-Sunday. His is the small.
est church in town. He owes his rise in
life.to Robert Bonner, of the Ledger, who
found him preaching to small congre.
CATION in Dublin, and induced him to
come to America. He gets salary Of
$4,000 a year, and makes $4,000 by his
newspaper aud magazine articles. He is
given luxuriously furnished house as
well.. DR.. Morgan Dix, the chief pastor
Of Trinity Church corporation, the
wealthiest in America, receives $4,000
yearly. DR.. William L. Taylor, of the
Broadway Tabernacle, gets the same
amount. He does literary work and
lecturipg that brings his income up to
$4,000. DR.. Charles Hall, of the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Chuch, is paid
$4,000. Heis very eloquent, and his
church is crowded at all services: DR..
Parkhurst, of Madison Square Church,
gets $4,000. He has large and distin.
guished congregation. Cyrus W. Field
is one of the pillars of the church. Dr..
Paxton, who breaches to Jay Gould and
others less wealthy, is paid $4,000. The
Rev. Robert Collyer, the blacksmith
preacher, is paid $4,000.
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Jumped Out of a Balloon.

QUINCY, ILL.,, July 4.-The much
talked.of leap from balloon was made
by Prof. Thomas S. Baldwin at the fair
grounds in this city to day. Over $4,000
people witnessed the performance, which
was the most daring and thrilling ever
attempted by man. His original inten-
tion was to send the balloon up 1000
feet and hold it captive by rope aud
make the jump from that height, and
afterward draw down the balloon and
make a regular voyage. Owing to the
high wind which prevailed, the rore
scheme was abandoned.
Baldwin ascended to the height of one
mile, and then holding his parachute,
launched himself into space. The para
chute is an umbrella shaped affair, with
ribs of cord which are prolonged and fac.
tened to a ring to which the aeronaut
clings. The parachute is made of silk,
and is eighteen feet in diameter. The
parachute was attached to the netting of
the balloon by small cord, intended TO
break by the weight of the aeronaut.
When the jump was made the parachute
was closed and the first 200 feet the aero.
naut dropped like rock. Then, as the
parachute expanded, the speed became
less rapid, aud the aeronaut and his
strange apparatus aoated steadily down
like bird. 1t was grand and beauti.
full sight. The descent was accomplished
iu three minutes and twenty seconds.
Mr.. Baldwin struck the ground with
some force in sliding manner, but was
net even Jared by the shock. The
descent varied about quarter of mile
from the vertical, and Baldwin struck
the ground mile and half from where
the ascent was made. He tried to col.
lapse the balloon before jumping from it,
but the apparatus failed to work, and the
balloon escaped and waa soon out OF
sight, going East at an altitude of a mile
and q half.
Baldwin, called by his friends "The
Man Bird" is native of Quincy, 26
years old. He was for several years an
attache of the Herald, but for the last
few years has been studying and practic-
ing athletics and ballooning. He made
similar leap in California last Winter,
the distance being about thousand feet.
The people here are wild over the affair,
and regard it as the most wonderful
thing ever done by a human being.
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learned exposition of the prophecies I
have eve: seen, and it does look like he
proves his theory. He declares that we
are now in the Saturday night of the
worlds week, and that the year 1900 will
close out our comedy of errors and new
play will begin. Thst great wars are
near at hand, and England will take a
back seat and will lose Ireland and the
West Indies, and that what now consti-
tutes % kingdoms will, in 1890, be
merged into ten, with France in the lead
and Napoleon on the throne. He tells
all about the great battle of Armogedden,
and how the Christians are to suffer for
three and half years and then triumph,
and how the Saviour is to come in the
year 1900 and reign for 1000 years, and
so forth and so on. It is certainly a
remarkable book and written by one of
the first scholars of the age.
"In no event." says he, "can this old
earth progress much longer in peaceful
status, for it has but twenty-five thou
sand million of acres Of land, and count.
iIg one acre for seven persons, the world
will be full in $50 years." "Full!"
just think of the world being full and no
more room. asked old father Ddbbins
what made him keep on buying land, and
he said: because the Creator is not
making any more land, but keeps on
making people. There are 1000 million
people now and if they double every
thirty years there will be FIVE hundred
thousand million people within three
hundred years. They will be as dense
as people at barbecue and about as
hungry. Something has got to happen
either this multiplying has got to stop or
war and pestilence has got to wake up
and go, to work lively or the world will
get full aud run over sureenough.
But still reckon We had all better
keep on working and fixing and pursue
the even tenor of our way. told Mrs.
Arp that it seemed like great events
were near at hand and we had better put
oil in our lamps and have them ready,
and she said yes, and told me the oil was
out and that had better send for sugar
too. When I mentioned the great beast
with ten horns that Daniel saw in his
vision she said that reminded her to tell
me that the peafowl had hatched and I
had better take Carl and go after her
and bring her home and keep her in a
coop for few days. Verify there is no
rest forlthe wicked. BILL ARP.
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Halliwell quotes Holly band, Dictionarie,
1898, sta beetle, which laundrers do use
to wash their buck and clothes" The
fact that, according to Halliwell, battler
was also a term for "a small bat to play
at ball WITH, would indicate the origin
of the word if it was not clear of itself.
Halliwell gives also "battling. stone, a
large, smooth. faced stone, set in a slop-
ing position BY the side Of a stream, on
which washerwomen beat their linen 10
cleanit. )"
Mares Glossary quotes the following
example ofsits:use: "And I remember
kissing Of her ballet, and the cows dugs
that her pretty chopped hands had
MIXED Shakespeare, GAS you like
It, III, a.. The same instrument was
called q beetle, says Mares. "Have I
lived thus long to be knocked O. th' head
with half a wasbing.beetlep Beau.
mont and Fletcher, Tanner Tanned" !"
II, SO. s., in Southern Christian
Advocate. -
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About a Mortgage.

The editor of the Santa Anna Standard,
having just succeeded in paying mort
gage on his ranch in Orangethrope, re-
ioices in the full ownership of "61 acres
of as fine land as California boasts" His
experience with the "dead pledge"-uow
SO happily past-moves him to wise re-
Elections, as follows: "a mortgage is a
queer institution. 1t makes man rustic
and keeps him poor. 1t is strong in
centiye to action, and wholesome
reminder of the fleeing months and years.
It is fully as symbolical in its meeting as
the hour.glass and scythe, that represent
death. A mortgage also represents in
dustry, because it is never idle and never
rests. 1t is like bosom friend, because
the greater the adversely the closer it
sticks to fellow. 1t is like brave SOL
dier-it never hesitstes at charges nor
fears to close in on the enemy. tits like
the sand.bag of the thug-silent in appli'
cation, but deadly in effect. tbs like the
hank of providence-it speaks all over
the creation, and its influence is every
where visible. 1t is like the grasp of a
devil. fsh-tbe longer it holds, the greater
its strength. 1t will exercise feeble
energies and lend activity to a sluggish
brain, but no matter how hard the deb.
tors work, the mortgage works harder
still. A mortgage is good thing to
have in the family-provided always it is
in somebody else'a family. 1t is like a
boil-always good thing on some other
fellow. It makes one sour, cross, unso.
ciable and miserable, and rarely does him
any good, only to exercise him. In that
respect it is equal to Vigor of Life, or the
latest patent medicine. We've had our
last one as far as We know ourself We
would rather have the ague than have a
mortgage. Adieu, old death pail, a fond
adieu."
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BATTLE AND BArTLIHG-sTIcK.

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To battle clothes, to beat them, in
washing. presume that it is diminu.
tive of the word bat, (noun and verb, to
strike, which Halliwell (Archaisms) mem
!. tions as used in the North of England,
and Jameson Scottish dictionary gives
for Scotland. Etymologically it is the
same, with bat, to wink the eyes, used
still in the South and Southwest. The
French cognate is batre; Goth batt-a(?).
It is very common in the retired parts of
the South. In my boyhood, in Abbevil'e
County, South Carolina, I rarely saw
washing done in any other way than as
follows: The clothes were boiled, then
scrubbed with the hands in cold water,
then7laid on a fat surface and battled, i.
e., beaten with heavy paddle called q
battling stick, and finally rinsed. But
as washboards come into use battling
goes ont; and SO the word ID becoming
obsolete. The word, as we'll as the act,
will die out last in the mountains. Two
years ago myself and two others were
wandering in the mountains on the bor-
der;line between North and South Caro-
lima, at a loss which way to 60, when the
sound Of some one battling clothes
reached our ears and guided US to the
only habitation on that side of the noun,
tain.
Battling stick is the name of the pad
dleor mallet with which the clothes are
battled. An example from Joel Chan.
: dler Harris's "Mingo" is in point. The
naughty mother Of the girl who had
married against her mothers will, the
son of poor Mrs. Feratia Biyings called
one day to see that high-tempered lady
about the little orphan left from the ILL
assorted marriage. Miss Fraishy," as
Mingo called her, was startled to see the
naughty woman. "But frightened up
my apron strings" she says, "and flung
my glance aroun' till his drapped on the
battlin'.stick, bekase aared up the min
nit I seen her, au' says to myself, says
], IF hits fracas you 'er huntin', my
lady, I lsy you won't halter put on your
specs to find it," As the battling-stick
ismade usually of some heavy wood, like
nak or hickory. and is made heavier still
by being continually wet, it is more
formidable weapon than q policeman's
club. The thing was we'll known in
English dialect. Wright Provincial
dictionary gives the following terms
for it: Batter, ballet, battling staff,
bats,aff and batleton, (shropshire). Dr.
johnson defined ballet as "a square piece
Of wood with q handle, used in beating
linen when taken ont of the buck"
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The Hon. James S. Speed, who was
Attorney General in Lincoln's Cabinet,
died at his home, in Louisville, KY, on
Saturday, June 2sth. BE was of an old
Kentucky family and was a strong
Unionist 1t was largely through his
efforts that Kentucky was kept in the
Union. In December, 1864, President
Lincoln appointed Mr.. Speed Attorney
General. He held the place and dis
charged its onerous duties with signal
ability and fidelity during the remainder
of Mr.. Liucoln's life and portion of the
term of Andrew Johnson, till July, 1866.
On his retirement from the Cabinet he
resumed his legal practice in Louisville.
For several years he was one of the Pro.
fessors in the Law Department Of the
Louisville University, and his private
legal business was very large. AS counsel
in an important will case he made an
argument two and q half hours long, ssid
to be the crowning effort in his career at
the Bar. In 1872 and 1876 he was a,
delegate to the National Republican
Convention, serving each time on the
committee on resolutions. BE Was also
a delegate to the State Republican Con-
yention in 1884, and was warm sup.
porter of President Arthur. He refused
to support Mr.. Blaine when the latter
was nominated, and voted for Mr.. Cleve.
land, although he had always before been
an uncompromising Republican. Old
sge and general debility were the causes
,of his death.
"A battle half lost is q battle half
| far fha other .faIInw.
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A Prohibition LoYefeast.

The prohibition lovefeast at Fort
Worth, Texas, one day last week, like
everything iu the Lone Star State, was
on an extensive scale. The crowd in
attendance was estimated at from 10000
to $4,000 people. There was an impos'
ing parade, followed by free barbecue.
An artesian we'll had been drilled on the
grounds, and furnished water for all who
we're present. There was o 30 gallon
coffee pot filled with coffee, and 80 gal
lon teapot, from which iced tea was
dispensed. Twenty. FIVE beeves and one
hundred sheep and goats were slaught'
cred for the occasion. Ex Senator Maxey
was one of the speakers.
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A Story of the War.

ST.. LOUIS, July 3.--A war reminis-
esnce has been printed to the effect that
while the Confederate army was retreats
ing from Shiloh, a young soldier, evi:
dently fever stricken, was ordered to work
loading train. He said he was sick.
General Bragg, who was at hand, was
informed that the young fellow would
not work, and he in person repeated the
order. Again the soldier said he was too
sick to work, whereupon General Bragg
ordered Lieutenant to take six men
and carry the sick soldier to an adjacent
grove and shoot him.. The squad took
charge of the victim, but just as they
were marching toward the grove General
Bragg beckoned the Lieutenant TO him
and whispered something in his ear.
The soldier was placed in position, but
refused to be blindfolded. He hastily
wrote his mothers name and address on
piece of paper and handed it, together
with his watch and ring to the Lieu
tenant. Then he calmly kuelt down and
said "Now I am ready"
The six voldiers raised their guns aud
aimed them at the breast of the soldier.
Then instead of the order, "Fire!" the
command, "Recover arms!" was given.
The lieutenant then stepped forward,
and, restoring the young fellows prop
erty, congratulated him on his GOODNESS
and bravery, and told him to hunt up bis
company and join it; he was not to be
shot.
Charles Garcia, whom reporter inter
viewed here yesterday, is the hero of this
story, and he said it was for the most
part accurate. He was looking for q
surgeon, he said, in order to get trans
portation to Tupelo, Miss, as he was too
sick to march. General Bragg ordered
him to march, and on his refusal to work
ordered him shot. When he knelt in
the grove ne closed his eyes, and when
he heard the order, "Recover arms !" be
was In daSed condition, and wondered
how it was that lie still lived. The
shock, however, completely cured his
fever, and he walked all the way te
Tupelo.
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"A conference was recently held in
London to consider the advisability of
forming a National Prohibition party in
Great Britain. The hundred or so of
delegates who were present were unani.
NOUS in believing that the time had come
for organizing such party, but its pro-
ceedings were hardly noticed by the great
metropolitan journals. No people of any
prominence attended the conference,
with the possible exception of Mr.. Axel
Gustaison, who is busy agitating this
question in England. A religious jour.
nal, the Christian Commonwealth, is vigor
ously advocating prohibition for Great
BritainN
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There has been a marked increase in
attendance upon the Sunday schools of
the city. This is especially noticeable

There has been a marked increase in
attendance upon the Sunday schools of
the city. This is especially noticeable
among the suburban churches. Many
children have started to the Sunday
schools who were not able to attend for
want of proper clothing. Attendance
upon the different churches is far better.
From fifteen hundred to two thousand
people have joined the various churches
of the city during the year.
The determination on the part of the
people to prohibit the liquor traffic, has
stimulated a disposition to do away with
other evils. The laws against gambling
are rigidly enforced. A considerable
stock of gamblers tools gathered together
by the police for several years past was
recently used for the purpose Of making
large bonfire on one of the unoccupied
squares of the city. The city council has
refused longer to grant license to bucket
shops, thus putting the seal of its con.
demnation upon the trade in futures of
all kinds.
All these reforms have had decided
tendency to diminish crime. Two weeks
were necessary formerly to get through
with the criminal docket. During the
present year it was closed out in two
days. The chaingang isalmost left with
nothing but the chains and the balls.
The gang part would not be large enough
to work the public roads of the county
were it not augmented by freah supplies
from the surrounding counties. The city
government is in the hands of our best
citizens.
The majority in this county in favor of
prohibition was only 235. Such change
has taken place in public sentiment,
however, that now there is hardly re-
spectacle anti prohibitionist in the city
WuU ldVOIS d lCGul u w Ui1ElOOiAo. AhSAO
are some who would prefer high license,
or its sale by the gallon, but it is a re-
markable fact that there is no disposition
to have the saloon opened again. The
barroom has gone from Atlanta forever,
and the people with remarkable unan-
unity say amen! There is very little
drinking in the city. There has been
forty per cent. falling off in the number
of arrests, Notwithstanding there has
been a rigid Interpretation of the Law
under which arrests are made. Form
erly, if man was sober enough to walk
home he was not molested. Now, if
there is the slightest variation from that
state in which the center of gravity falls
in line inside the base, the party is
made to answer for such variation at the
stationhouse.
Our experience has demonstrated to US
beyond doubt that city of sixty
thousand inhabitants can get along and
advance at a solid and constant rate
without the liquor traffic.
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- The postage stamp is particularly
unfortunate. When man wants to lick
it he attacks it behind its back,
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= Contempt of court--When the
younger brother makes faces at his sis
ter's lover.